On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:
I *think* it's this part:
if (!(found_rfc2822 ||
is_cherry_picked_from_line(buf + i, k - i - 1)))
return 0;
which basically returns 0 for _any_ line in the footer that doesn't
match the found_rfc2822 format.
Confirmed. I hacked up a version that just doesn't do that check at
all, and it works fine (but obviously only on well-formatted emails
that really do have a sign-off).
So I think that logic should basically be extended to saying
- if any line in the last chunk has a "Signed-off-by:", set a flag.
- at the end of the loop, if that flag wasn't set, return 0.
Instead of that thing that basically returns zero immediately when it
sees a line it doesn't like.
I'm in the middle of my merge window, so I'm not going to get around
to writing a patch until that's over. Hopefully somebody will step up
in the meantime. Hint, hint.
Linus